Sustainable tourism practices at our family hotels

We're extremely privileged to be part of our community on the Cornish coast, which is just one reason why we're committed to conserving our surrounding landscape while providing opportunities for our friends, families and neighbours. To help us minimise the impact our operations have, we've taken the following steps:

• We operate a water-saving policy throughout the hotel.
• Paper waste, cardboard and glass bottles are all recycled, as is our organic waste oil.
• We have a hotel herb garden, which supplies ingredients for our kitchen throughout the year.
• We reduce our food miles and support local businesses wherever possible by purchasing local products through Niles Bakery, Fish for Thought, Camel Valley, Knightor, and Treleavens.
• Energy-saving bulbs are used throughout the hotel.
• Hotel bedrooms feature bespoke beds and furniture made from sustainably managed or British-grown wood.
• We’ve thought carefully about the environment when sourcing items for the hotel: blankets for the terrace are made from recycled wool, and children’s tableware is organic bamboo, recycled from the waste created in the production of chopsticks.
• We encourage children to be interested in, and to talk about, sustainability and plastic pollution through the work of local artist, Stephanie Tudor.
• We employ many local people from Fowey and the surrounding areas. We encourage staff to car share wherever possible – some even take the ferry!
• We recommend days out that don’t require a car in our Guest Information station.
• We support many community events.
• The hotel has 90% fuel-efficient boilers.
• We have a POD Point electric-car charger onsite.

The Ickworth is dedicated to the principles of applying sustainable tourism. Wherever possible, we will endeavour to minimise the impact of our business on the environment and our local community with the following practices:

• We try to conserve energy wherever we can and carry out ongoing improvements within the hotels to help preserve our planet’s natural resources and reduce the amount of energy that is wasted.
• In order to be more environmentally friendly, we are continually exploring ways in which we can increase the amount of recycling that we do, so that we can help to reduce the amount of waste going into landfill sites.
• As a hotel, we support a local charity called EACH: East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices. EACH offers support to families, children and young people living with life-threatening conditions, from diagnosis to end-of-life care and bereavement. All of their support is free of charge and available 365 days a year to families.

Our enchanting woodland escape sits in one of the country's most beautiful regions. As part of our commitment to providing an authentic rural escape, we're committed to protecting our surroundings, as well as the wider environment and community.

• Wherever possible, we will endeavour to minimise the impact of our business on the environment.
• We try to conserve energy wherever we can and we have an ongoing process of improvements being carried out within the hotel that will help to preserve our planet's natural resources and reduce the amount of energy that is wasted, such as recently installed POD Point electric-car chargers.
• In order to be more environmentally friendly, we are continually exploring ways in which we can increase the amount of recycling that we do, so that we can help to reduce the amount of waste going into landfill sites.
• As a hotel, we support local charities Love The New Forest and Naomi House Children's Hospice.

We're acutely aware of the impact that our industry can have on the environment, which is why we've introduced policies that help us to minimise this effect.

• Wherever possible, we will endeavour to minimise the impact of our business on the environment.
• We try to conserve energy wherever we can. We have an ongoing process of improvements being carried out within the hotel that will help to preserve our planet's natural resources and reduce the amount of energy that is wasted, such as recently installed POD Point electric-car chargers.
• In order to be more environmentally friendly, we are continually exploring ways in which we can increase the amount of recycling that we do, so that we can help to reduce the amount of waste going into landfill sites.

Our team is committed to minimising the impact we have on the environment. Being in a unique position overlooking a World Heritage Site, we have a responsibility to protect our surroundings and the landscape around us.

• Wherever possible, we will endeavour to minimise the impact of our business on the environment.
• We try to conserve energy wherever we can. We have an ongoing process of improvements being carried out within the hotel that will help to preserve our planet's natural resources and reduce the amount of energy that is wasted, such as recently installed POD Point electric-car chargers.
• In order to be more environmentally friendly, we are continually exploring ways in which we can increase the amount of recycling that we do, so that we can help to reduce the amount of waste going into landfill sites.
• As a hotel, we support our local children's hospice, Julia's House.